Reproductive investment patterns, sperm characteristics, and seminal plasma physiology in alternative reproductive tactics of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 99-108

  Flannery, Erin W ^a   Butts, Ian A E ^a   Słowińska, Mariola ^b   Ciereszko, Andrzej ^b   Pitcher, Trevor E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL REPRODUCTION AND FOOD RESEARCH   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adenosine 5' triphosphate; Gonadosomatic index; Salmon; Sneak guard hypothesis; Sperm competition; Sperm morphology; Sperm velocity

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; DOMINANCE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SALMONID; SPERM COMPETITION;

CARANGIDAE; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 84871298501     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01980.x     Document Type: Article

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